Tag: communication
How to Avoid Crappy Culture and Keep Engineers Happy
Software engineers know how much they are worth—everyone wants them and there aren't enough of them to fill that demand. While the need for tech talent is greater than ever, the pandemic ...
Reducing Friction in Developer Collaboration
Given how the individual unit of deployment has gotten increasingly smaller, such that the unit of deployment is usually a microservice, it would be tempting to think that individual developers are more ...
Should Conway’s Law Be Applied to DevSecOps?
Strictly adhering to Conway’s Law could lead to less innovation and the inability to keep up in a fast-changing market When it comes to determining how an organization should be structured, the ...
AWS Aligns With Slack to Foster Dev Team Collaboration
Mike Vizard | | AWS, collaboration tools, communication, communications, devops, messaging, Slack, video conference, voice callsAmazon Web Services (AWS) and Slack Technologies have formed an alliance through which they are moving to transform the way development teams collaborate. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Slack will ...
DevOps: The Ultimate Way to Break Down Silos
Let’s imagine Jim works on the development team for a food company and his colleague, Julie, works on the operations team. On a daily basis, Jim focuses on analyzing users’ needs, testing ...
Breaking Down Data Silos in Your Organization
Today’s organizations can finally use advanced technologies to unlock the true value of all of their data. This enables them to make better decisions, serve up better customer experiences, accelerate innovation and ...
‘Yehbut’: Communication in the Age of DevOps
Effective communication is integral to success in DevOps transformations Ever since the dawning of mankind, or should I say "humankind," we, as a species have invented ways to communicate with our fellow ...
8 Reasons Why DevOps Needs Competent Writing Skills
contributor | | code, communication, devops, engagement, instructions, practitioners, programmers, writing skillsIt's a fact: DevOps practitioners need to have competent writing skills to help them in their career. It may seem a little antithetic—after all, software engineers and programmers are well-known to be ...
How IT is More Like an ATV Than a Sedan
contributor | | Agility, Business, car analogy, collaboration, communication, devops, interaction, itThere is an analogy for IT being like a car and it often goes something like this: IT should run like a well-oiled machine. I don't get in my car and think about ...
Best Practices for Internal Communication in DevOps
contributor | | communication, data insights, devops, digital communications, meetings, soft skills, team communication, time managementDevOps has become a widely popular method of collaboration in the IT world. The combination of development, operations and quality assurance, DevOps requires every project have clear communication channels between development teams ...
Stop Talking About the Number of Times You’ll Deploy
It’s the late 1940s and the automobile industry is just taking off. You run one of the product marketing teams at Chrysler. Wanting to make the best of an exploding market, your ...
It’s About Communication, not Silos
Too often, when enterprise folks talk with DevOps aficionados, we get a loud chorus of “Culture Change” and “Take down the silos,” and frankly that scares any sane enterprise IT person. Not ...
